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a woman on the bus
asked if i was jewish
i said what she said
are you jewish i said
my father was jewish
she said good i said
nothing she said
there are a lot of good
jewish people
i read the bible every day
i said nothing she said
we’re going to win you know
i’m christian she said
jews and christians
are a lot alike we’ve
got to protect one another
she said we’ve got to win
this war she said
and got off the bus

Wikipedia Poem, No. 632

“O Zeus our ancestor, look with loathing on those tokens of a victory that was not won.” Hellenistic funerary epigram (trans. Paton)

galloping eyes
breeding that's
broad
social
observation
1913 and again
free
again free
hypoallergenic
grassy embankment
zero two eight
gross to the nines
1919
eight hundred and twenty eight third class passengers
we counted
r
eight hundred and twenty eight third class passengers
again reproach
membrane between
1922 renamed a parking lot
in one
must
feed as were from
each other
1919
four foot
x beams fifty seven
in fours
one hundred and six second class passengers
again they're counted
free from distinction
commonsensations but
toward
inert cars and
on fourteen bay twenty-second street brooklyn new york
their eyes
in rough port of distraction
for northern
and fingered
again freed dogs
gallop across hypoallergenic grassy
embankment